HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow
Civil and Environmental Engineering
MIT 48-106
15 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
617.253.8686 (lab)
617.258.7009 (fax)
Email: giocapo at mit.edu
Education
2017 Ph.D. Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.
2012 M.Sc Biotechnology, University of Padua, Italy.
2010 B.Sc. Agricultural Science, University of Padua, Italy.
Publications
Capovilla G, Delhomme N, Collani S, Shutava I, Bezrukov I, Symeonidi E, Amorim M, Laubinger S, Schmid M: PORCUPINE regulates development in response to temperature through alternative splicing. Nat. Plants, (2018), doi: 10.1038/s41477-018-0176-z
Capovilla G, Symeonidi E, Wu R, Schmid M: Contribution of major FLM isoforms to temperature-dependent flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana. J. Exp. Bot. (2017), 68, 5117–5127.
You Y, Sawikowska A, Neumann M, Posé D, Capovilla G, Langenecker T, Neher RA, Krajewski P, Schmid M: Temporal dynamics of gene expression and histone marks at the Arabidopsis shoot meristem during flowering. Nat. Commun. (2017), 8:15120.
Conn VM, Hugouvieux V, Nayak A, Conos SA, Capovilla G, Cildir G, Jourdain A, Tergaonkar V, Schmid M, Zubieta C, Conn SJ: A circRNA from SEPALLATA3 regulates splicing of its cognate mRNA through R-loop formation. Nat. Plants (2017), 3:17053.
Capovilla G, Pajoro A, Immink RGH, Schmid M: Role of alternative pre- mRNA splicing in temperature signaling. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. (2015), 27:97– 103.
Capovilla G, Schmid M, Posé D: Control of flowering by ambient temperature. J. Exp. Bot. (2015), 66:59–69.
